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To: Yogafist
When will these stupid cops learn to differentiate between and pellet gun made to look like a real gun, and a real gun.

I'd rather they demand "Hands up, drop the weapon!". Just seems there are too many reports of people shot dead holding a cane, umbrella, garden hose, hand drill, pickle (well, maybe not a pickle)... I hate that cops automatically shoot to kill now. That stance is making people want to take out cops and make them dead. I think they need to revise their procedures, as it would seem to many that they're out to kill and not necessarily protect the public.

28 posted on 10/10/2015 11:58:16 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

“I’d rather they demand “Hands up, drop the weapon!”.”

It happened in a matter of seconds. Police car pulls up to kid, kid pulls up front of sweatshirt, gets shot. Can’t tell what, if anything, was said.


33 posted on 10/11/2015 12:18:37 AM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: roadcat

I hate that cops automatically shoot to kill now.

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Yeah, they should shoot the gun out of the bad guys hand, just like in the movies huh?


45 posted on 10/11/2015 3:34:39 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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